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Chocolate Lab, chocolate couch

Chocolate Lab, chocolate couch

They make a good pair.

Hold that pose

Hold that pose

Our resident Blue Jay tarried just long enough for me to capture it.

Splish splash

Splish splash

I filled the bird bath/water dish for the first time this season, and this male House Sparrow was fairly quick to take advantage.

Curves

Curves

In the middle of the man-made straight lines and angles and curves, the tree trunks’ natural irregularities, there are this grackles’ smoothly curved bill, outline, and rounded eye/iris.

Incongruous

Incongruous

Even after seven years’ living near the St. Clair River, it is still a little odd to watch large freighters juxtaposed with houses.

Frost

Frost

The landscape of frost on the car roof shortly after sunrise compelled me to stop and capture it, to admire it for a moment before I drove away and it disappeared, never to be seen again. It was a reminder to stop and appreciate what is, because you may never see, hear, feel, experience it again.

Angles

Angles

We came across an abandoned, empty barn recently. Faye wanted me to stop, and she got out to take photos, including this one full of juxtaposed angles, lines, light and shadow.